leisured class
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"We're in the business of totally converting the proletariat to the leisured class," Cornfeld boasted.
From Time Magazine Archive
A great city also must have within its boundaries a large leisured class to pay for the culture and pleasure that are the outward signs of its preeminence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here are the best shops, the banks, and those elegant and ostentatious casinos, where the aristocracy and leisured class lounge and smoke, and survey at their ease the unceasing procession of passers by.
From Southern Spain by Calvert, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
The number of the leisured class, enjoying large incomes without participating in any local industry, is relatively small, but is said to be on the increase.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
The great principle of conspicuous ritualistic waste had been illustrated in a manner to satisfy the most exacting standard of the leisured class; and incidentally a subject of talk was provided.
From The Roll-Call by Bennett, Arnold
